The 7th Financial Narrative Processing Workshop (FNP 2026)

LREC 2026 — Palma de Mallorca, 11–16 May 2026
Website: https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/cfie/fnp2026/

Workshop Overview

Since its inauguration at LREC 2018 in Miyazaki, the Financial Narrative Processing (FNP) initiative has grown into a leading forum for research in Financial NLP. What began as an exploratory effort is now a mature, international series of workshops and shared tasks shaping the development of automated methods for extracting, summarising, and analysing qualitative and quantitative financial data.

The 7th edition of FNP (2026) marks our eleventh international Financial NLP event and seventh dedicated FNP workshop, reflecting the field’s rapid expansion. Over the last decade, methods in Accounting and Finance have moved from manual, small-scale analysis to sophisticated approaches driven by NLP and Machine Learning. FNP has been central to this shift—organising eleven major events, creating widely used datasets, and launching influential shared tasks that have become benchmarks in the community.

Since its inception in 2012, the Financial Narrative Processing (FNP) initiative has established a long-standing tradition of advancing research in Financial NLP. What began as an exploratory project has now grown into a mature and influential series of international workshops and shared tasks, shaping the development of automatic and computer-aided approaches for extracting, summarising, and analysing both qualitative and quantitative financial data.

The 7th edition of FNP (2026) will mark our tenth international event dedicated to this field, underscoring the continued and growing global interest in financial narrative processing. Over the past decade, research that was once largely manual and small-scale in Accounting and Finance has been transformed by Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML) methods. We have been at the forefront of this transformation—organising nine major international events to date, introducing widely adopted shared tasks, and releasing datasets and methodologies that have become foundational for the community.

 

Previous FNP Events

FNP has consistently received strong feedback from academic and industry participants. Previous editions include:

 

Shared Tasks at FNP 2026

FNP shared tasks have attracted more than 500 participants and yielded over 100 papers across previous editions. For 2026, the workshop will include one shared task:

1. Financial Causality Detection (FinCausal 2026)

Our longest-running shared task, now in its sixth year.
New in 2026:

  • Hybrid Question Answering format
  • English and Spanish datasets
  • Questions formulated abstractly
  • Extractive answers evaluated with a combination of exact matching and semantic similarity
  • New bilingual datasets released

 Invited Speaker

Dr Pablo Haya
Head of Business and Language Analytics (BLA), IIC – Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=y_eapzgAAAAJ

Call for Papers

We invite submissions of original, unpublished research in Financial NLP and Financial Text Analysis, including theoretical work, methods, datasets, resources, applications, and negative results.

Topics include (but are not limited to):

  • Core technologies for financial narratives: morphological analysis, tokenisation, disambiguation, part-of-speech tagging, named entity recognition, chunking, parsing, semantic role labelling, sentiment analysis, document quality, and advanced readability metrics.
  • Ethics, diversity, and wellbeing: using NLP to detect misreporting and biases in financial narratives relating to gender, ethnicity, representation of women at work, employee wellbeing, mental health, and organisational stability.
  • Resources and tools: financial dictionaries, annotated corpora, benchmarks, software, and novel methodologies.
  • Summarisation in financial contexts: single- and multi-document summarisation, headline generation, evaluation of summaries, and cross-domain or cross-lingual summarisation (e.g., company blogs, market briefs, product reviews).
  • Social media and financial discourse: analysing online platforms to capture public opinion and sentiment around financial events.
  • Multilingual and cross-regulatory perspectives: exploring financial narratives across languages, dialects, and varying international regulatory regimes.
  • Ongoing and preliminary research: work-in-progress studies with promising early findings.
  • Negative results: experiments showing where methods (including state-of-the-art models such as BERT and its variants) succeed or fail across languages, domains, or tasks.

Submission Types

  • Long papers: Up to 8 pages

  • Short papers: Up to 4 pages

Formatting will follow the LREC 2026 guidelines.

Key Dates

  • 4 Dec 2025 – First Call for Papers
  • 10 Jan 2026 – Second Call for Papers
  • 5 Jan 2026 – Shared-task training set release
  • 1 Feb 2026 – Shared-task blind test release
  • 15 Feb2026 – Shared-task system submissions
  • 20 Feb 2026 – Paper submission deadline
  • 11 Mar 2026 – Acceptance notifications
  • 30 Mar 2026 – Camera-ready deadline (hard deadline)
  • 11–16 May 2026 – LREC 2026 & Workshops (final date TBC)

Organisers: 

 

Scholarly Impact

FNP has built a strong research presence, producing influential datasets, widely cited papers, and long-running shared tasks. Citation records are publicly available:

 

 Programme Committee (Confirmed, through serving on previous FNP workshops):

  • Antonio Moreno Sandoval (UAM, Spain)
  • Vasiliki Athanasakou (SMU, Canada)
  • Kim Trottier (HEC, Canada)
  • Doaa Samy (Cairo University, Egypt and LLI-UAM)
  • Blanca Carbajo Coronado (UAM, Spain)
  • Ahmed AbuRa’ed (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain), 
  • Nikiforos Pittaras (NCSR, Demokritos).
  • Catherine Salzedo (LUMS, Lancaster University, UK)
  • Denys Proux (Naver Labs, Switzerland)
  • George Giannakopoulos (SKEL Lab – NCSR Demokritos)
  • Haithem Afli (Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland)
  • Houda Bouamor (CMU, Qatar)
  • Mo El-Haj (SCC, Lancaster University, UK)
  • Marina Litvak (Sami Shamoon College of Engineering)
  • Martin Walker (University of Manchester, UK)
  • Paul Rayson (SCC, Lancaster University, UK)
  • Simonetta Montemagni ( ILC, Italy)
  • Steven Young (LUMS, Lancaster University, UK) 
  • Scott Piao (SCC, Lancaster University, UK)
  • Mohan Subbiah (LUMS, Lancaster University, UK)
  • Paulo Alves (Universidade Católica Portuguesa)
  • Thomas Schleicher (MBA, Manchester University)
  • Ana Gisbert (Accounting, UAM, Spain)
  • Ans Elhag (Lancaster University, UK)
  • Ana García Serrano (UNED, Spain)
  • John MConroy (IDA Center for Computing Sciences)
  • Elena Lloret (University of Alicante, Spain)
  • Vangelis Karkaletsis (NCSR Demokritos)
  • Juan Cigarrán (UNED, Spain)
  • Pablo Haya (IIC, Spain)
  • Mark Last (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
  • Natalia Vanetik (Sami Shamoon College of Engineering)   
  • George Petasis (NCSR Demokritos, Greece
  • Paloma Martínez (UC3M, Spain)
  • Peter Rankel (Elder Research Inc., USA)
  • Juyeon Kang (Fortia Financial Solutions, France)
  • Ismail  El Maarouf (Imprevicible, France)
  • Oi Yee Kwong (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) 
  • Stefanie Evert (CS, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
  • Ahmet Aker (CS, Sheffield University, UK)
  • Marta Guerrero (IIC, Spain)
  • Horacio Saggion (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)